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The piano broadway6/7/2023 “Well, I’m supposed to be the entertainment!” her voice skies.īrooks, 33, has been performing for applauding audiences since starting at the age of 6 in her South Carolina church. “What exactly does social media serve?” she asks with an almost familial calm during one of our conversation’s many digressions. And then there is Brooks, dressed down in a burnt-orange hoodie and matching sweats, wearing a dark, fitted cap with a D embroidered in Collins Old English–style font. But on this early-fall Friday afternoon, the place is buzzing with layfolk, tourists, and theater nerds sipping on midday martinis before jaunting through a Theater District recovering from pandemic woes. Those in the know tell me this tavern is where the cast of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson goes to kick it - to decompress after the latest rehearsal, to clown, talk shit, and bond. Her eyes, once focused on dicing digital citrus and berries, now convey a winsome giddiness. Danielle Brooks is sitting in a corner of the Glass House Tavern’s upper level, brows furrowed, fingers furiously slashing across her phone screen.
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